The History of the World: In Five Books. Viz. Treating of the Beginning and First Ages of Same from the Creation Unto Abraham. of the Birth of Abraham to the Destruction of Jerusalem to the Time of Philip of Macedon. from the Reign of Philip of Macedon to
The History of the World: In Five Books. Viz. Treating of the Beginning and First Ages of Same from the Creation Unto Abraham. of the Birth of Abraham to the Destruction of Jerusalem to the Time of Philip of Macedon. from the Reign of Philip of Macedon to
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1820 edition. Excerpt: ...gar-5 Pol. 11. j.ison of Eryx should lay down their arms, and for pake Sicily, threatening, that otherwise he would not talk of any composition; Hamilcar boldly bade him chuse, whether he would talk of it or no; for that the arms which his country had put into his hands to use against her enemies, it was not ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1820 edition. Excerpt: ...gar-5 Pol. 11. j.ison of Eryx should lay down their arms, and for pake Sicily, threatening, that otherwise he would not talk of any composition; Hamilcar boldly bade him chuse, whether he would talk of it or no; for that the arms which his country had put into his hands to use against her enemies, it was not his purpose to yield up unto them. Now since the Romans, contrary to their custom upon like advantages, were content to let Hamilcar have his will, and not to stand with him upon point of honour, whilst they hight quietly rid their hands of him; plain enough it is, that they were far from thinking him a man consumed with miseries, as Fabius would have him seem. Hereunto agrees the relation of.Polybius, who flatly, and by name, chargeth Fabius with untruth; saying, that howsoever Hamilcar, and his soldiers, had endured all extremity, yet they behaved themselves as men that had no sense thereof, and were as far from being either vanquished, or tired, as were their enemies, Such being the difference between Fabius (as also perhaps between other old writers of the Roman story) and those that had more regard of truth, than of nattering the mighty city of Rome; we must take it in good part, that howsoever Livy introduceth Hanno, in one place, joining very foolishly his own shameful overthrow at the islands.Egates, with the great services of Hamilcar at Eryx, as if both of them had had a like event; yet elsewhere 7 he forbcareth not to put a more likely tale (though with as impudent a commemoration of his own unhappy conduct) into the same Hanno's mouth; making him say, that the affairs of Carthage never went better than a little before the loss of their fleet in that battle at sea wherein himself was general. Now, concerning the doings of the...
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